Each class or course in comprehensive sex education offered in any of grades K through 12 shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV.

The bill’s intention was to mandate sex education, especially concerning contraception and the prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases, for children before the sixth grade and as early as kindergarten. Obama’s defenders may howl, but the bill is what it is.

But wait… Doesn’t teaching young children about sex help avoid and prevent sexual abuse, STDs and unplanned pregnancies?

Three boys aged six ran a sex club at a Brisbane state school demanding and receiving sexual favours from Year 2 classmates, a father has claimed.

The angry father’s claims came as similar stories emerged at state schools on the Gold and Sunshine coasts and in Cairns, which indicate the sexual abuse of young students by other school children appears rampant.

His revelations came as uproar was sparked by a Courier-Mail story, which told how the sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl by a young classmate was dismissed as a “childhood experiment” by a country school principal.

The Courier-Mail revealed how the young victim was forced to perform oral sex on the boy, who had threatened her with violence.

Meanwhile, on the Sunshine Coast, a gang of nine-year-old boys has been accused of “grooming” children as young as five to engage in sex acts. Investigators were told victims were rewarded with lollies.

Is that appropriate for hormone-laden, experimental-stage teenagers to read that? Educators in Illinois (the legislature of which we’re talking about) seemed to think so until parents protested enough to make it merely optional reading.

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2) When amended, the legislature now reads:

Each class or course in comprehensive sex education offered in any of grades K through 12 shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV.

If a school offers a class or course in sex education in grades K through 5, the course material shall be age and developmentally appropriate and medically accurate.

How does one teach kindergarteners about preventing STDS and HIV in an age appropriate, yet medically accurate and effective manner? The best I can think of is “Don’t let people take off your clothes or touch you in a way that makes you uncomfortable.” But that’s more like abstinence.

It’s a shame mainstream journalists are too busy trashing Sarah Palin to look into Barack Obama’s background. Riehl World View offers some fascinating leads they might pursue regarding the trip he made to Pakistan before transferring from Occidental to Columbia:

By 1980 at Occidental Obama ran partly with a circle of wealthy, drug using Pakistani friends. He traveled to Pakistan between Occidental and Columbia in 1981. That was during the Second Military Era (1977-1988) – Pakistan was under Sharia Law and not the most welcoming to foreign visitors, especially without some graft or connections.

Based upon documented accounts, Obama seems to have also traveled the country-side, not just in the cities. By 1981 Pakistan had become the world’s number one supplier of Heroin. Upon his return Obama took up residence with one of the drug using Pakistanis in a run down, presumably drug infested part of NYC in an apartment they couldn’t qualify for based on income.

They had to resort to fraud on the application, because they lacked visible means to pay the rent. Where did the money come from? Why is so little known about this part of his life? Why doesn’t the media look into it?
Strike that last question. The answer is obvious.

It looks like sex ed is really catching fire with the prepubescent set. From Australia:

Three boys aged six ran a sex club at a Brisbane state school demanding and receiving sexual favours from Year 2 classmates, a father has claimed. […]

The angry father’s claims came as similar stories emerged at state schools on the Gold and Sunshine coasts and in Cairns, which indicate the sexual abuse of young students by other school children appears rampant. […]

His revelations came as uproar was sparked by [a] Courier-Mail story, which told how the sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl by a young classmate was dismissed as a “childhood experiment” by a country school principal.

The Courier-Mail revealed how the young victim was forced to perform oral sex on the boy, who had threatened her with violence. […]

It is because of liberal cornwads like Obama that organizations like NAMBLA exist. Age appropriate for a Kindergarden student?? I have a son in 1st grade and you can bet your ass that I will not stand for him to be exposed to any sex ed. You literally would have to be a retard to even think of legislation like this.

hutchrun brings up a good point. Children need to know a little bit about sex in order to know what constitutes sexual assault and what doesn’t. Some children are not likely to learn this at home, and may even be being assaulted at home, and so I approve of children being taught a bit about this.

“Ms Ollis and other adolescent health experts want Australian governments to learn from nations such as the Netherlands, where age-appropriate sex education classes are taught from prep to year 12. The system has been credited with helping to achieve one of the world’s lowest teen abortion and pregnancy rates.”

“Sex education is done differently in different schools. A national curriculum would ensure all children and teenagers have access to age-appropriate information and an opportunity to discuss it.

Parents with strong religious or moral views may be concerned that this will expose their children to information they don’t want them to have or encourage them to adopt liberal values. The answer is to ensure that sex education involves a chance to debate all values – including the value of abstinence.”

I also think it would help kids understand what is and isn’t sexual assault. As unfortunate as it is, they could be experiencing assault at home, in their church, their school, babysitter, from peers…

jezb1, it’s true… Most cases of child sexual assault are perpetratred by those the child knows and trusts. Therefore the advice not to let anyone touch you in a way that makes you uncomfortable, rather than ‘Don’t talk to strangers’.

1&2) the age appropriate is going by school grades (k-12) so k-age starts around 5 or 6. Also the kids in Kindergarten wouldn’t be learning what kids in higher grades would be learning that is why they say age appropriate material. Kindergartners would learn about sex predictors and inappropriate touch and such.

3)”As a state senator in Illinois, Obama voted for the sex education bill in committee in 2003, but he was not a sponsor.

The measure said schools offering sex education must include medically accurate information appropriate to the age of the students. The lessons were to cover the consequences of unprotected sex, the effects of various forms of contraception and the option of abstinence.

It also would have allowed parents to pull their children from sex education classes if they wished.

See it goes both ways, but of course McCain missed more votes than Obama did.

4) You do know that Australia is not part of the United States, so they have different regulations and laws. I am not sure what type of sex education Australia was provided, so I am not able to tell if Illinois’ children will have the same outcome as some of those Australian kids.

Also is that case of the Australian kids an isolated case? What is the percentage number of kids in Australia that had sex education and then went out to experiment with sex compared to kids that had NO sex education and experimented with sex?

I am voting for Obama just the same reason why you are probably voting for McCain because I believe Obama is the right person to be the next President.

I focus my decision on what Obama WANTS to do for the American people (mostly for working Americans) than the fact that he will be the first African American President that just doesn’t matter to me.

Yes I am trying to clear up the misconceptions that people may have about Obama and to get information out there that some people my not know about him. I did some looking into McCain on what he stands for too. And I feel for me personally McCain doesn’t stand for me or my issues.

I should let you know that when Obama and Hillary were debating for the Democratic candidate position I was a little bit toward Hillary’s side and not because she is a woman, but I end up going towards Obama at the end before Hillary’s lose.

Your blog is anti-Obama, but that is your choice to have a blog like that which I do not blame you for having (you are a McCain supporter). One good thing I do notice about you blog compared to other anti-Obama blogs is that you are willing to let others no matter what their position on the issue is still are able to express and voice their opinions which I thank you for.

I’ve been to other anti-Obama sites and blogs and they would not post my comments no profanity was in it, but still they choose not to add my comments.

The Family Education Trust, a campaign group, argues there is “no evidence” that starting sex education at the age of four would reduce the rates of teenage pregnancy.

The group said: “We have had 30 years of sex education in secondary schools and it has never been more easy for teenagers to get hold of contraception without their parents knowing, yet both abortion rates and sexually transmitted infection rates have continued to rise.”

Jim Knight, the schools minister, is finalising a review of Sex and Relationship Education intended to “improve the quality and consistency of provision to young people”

Mr Bryant says he is “confident” that ministers will take action to improve what he called “sub-standard sex and relationship education.”

One in three secondary schools in England now has a sexual health clinic to give condoms, pregnancy tests and even morning-after pills to children as young as 11, according to a study published in June.

Government figures published in the same month disclosed that the number of abortions in girls under 16 last year rose 10 per cent, up to 4,376 from 3,990.

No, the shocking detail has to do with a wild, 35-point swing toward McCain among Jewish voters. Obama led among them by a margin of 50-37 in August. This month, McCain is actually leading Obama by a margin of 54 percent to 32 percent.

…the shocking detail has to do with a wild, 35-point swing toward McCain among Jewish voters. Obama led among them by a margin of 50-37 in August. This month, McCain is actually leading Obama by a margin of 54 percent to 32 percent.